Category: Medicine

Eligibility Criteria for SSAT’s Health Care Disparities Research Award

 

Dr. Sabha Ganai is board-certified in public health, surgery, and complex general surgical oncology. An ethicist and educator, Dr. Sabha Ganai serves at Southern Illinois University as the director of gastrointestinal oncology. Dr. Ganai has received recognition for her work, including the 2014 Outstanding Surgical Educator of the Year award and the 2015 Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) Health Care Disparities Research award.

The Health Care Disparities Research award is granted to faculty members participating in disparities research in digestive illness and provides a yearly grant of $20,000 for two years. This award is provided to selected and qualifying investigators who have been appointed to a medical faculty for ten years and who are focused on studying issues such as the effect of access to healthcare, disability, and socioeconomic status on health and developing strategies to reduce disparities.

To be eligible for the award, investigators must be surgeons and have finished their clinical education in general surgery. They must also be in good standing with the SSAT and working within a faculty at a medical school that has been accredited by the Committee for Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools in Canada, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in the United States, or an equivalent accrediting body.

The MacLean Center’s Surgical Ethics Program

MacLean Center
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Dr. Sabha Ganai is a surgical oncologist with a background in minimally invasive surgeries, and was the first to perform the hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy procedure in central and southern Illinois. Dr. Sabha Ganai is a senior ethics fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.

The MacLean Center aims to improve patient care by promoting medical ethics research and educating physicians and healthcare professionals on medical ethics. In 2015, the MacLean Center, in partnership with the American College of Surgeons, launched a specialized program tailored for surgical practitioners interested in receiving training on surgical ethics.

The MacLean Center’s surgical ethics program aims to prepare surgeons for professional practices that prioritize surgical ethics. It is a full-year fellowship that includes training on clinical ethics research and consultations.

It starts with a five-week introduction running from July to August. This summer introduction is an intense full-time program. Afterward, fellows meet once a week from September to June for a structured ethics curriculum. Among the topics covered are introduction to moral philosophy, clinical ethics, surgical ethics, and law and ethics. On top of curriculum training, the program features bi-monthly surgical ethics case references and mentored research opportunities in surgical ethics.

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